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Not looking or feeling my best today. It started as soon as I got to work. But we managed to get our act together, and get some work ...

Neil Gaiman has an op-ed in the New York Times today. He also commends this to your attention. I ... uh ... don't know how to descri...

Chris Sims offers some advice on constructing your secret supervillain lair. Despite the fact that crushing walls have never succeeded eve...

Timothy Burke is a serious scholar of African history. He's dismayed about recent developments in the US. For years, one of the most p...

If you're a social democrat like me, and think about political economy blah blah blah, then you may have heard about Yale professor Jaco...

What's at stake in the makeup of Congress? Consider this from Krugman, by way of Atrios: Last year The Boston Globe offered an illumi...

Via DragonLadyFlame, I offer you Snakes on a Plane RPG, The Roleplaying Game of Personal Discovery, Dire Combat, And Motherf&*%ing Sna...

Only for the serious Sorkin fans, still wondering what to make of Studio 60 , Ken Levine answers the question, what if Aaron Sorkin did a sh...

If you happen to follow the political mediasphere such that you are exposed to the maddening half-truths of Thomas Friedman, you might have ...

I thought I was done with the whole Pluto question , but discovered that I could not resist the symposium: Pluto ~ Good or bad for the Jews?

Maybe you've heard that Jeff Stein has been quizzing our nation's leaders. Take Representative Terry Everett, a seven-term Alabama...

Aha. I've been seeing this around lately, but didn't fully get it until Lindsay Beyerstein of Majikthise explained it to me. Chris...

Perhaps you've seen Michael J. Fox's gutsy and heartbreaking campaign ad for Missouri Senate candidate Claire McCaskill, in which h...

Lance Mannion has an excellent post about torture and the politics of resentment, if you're not getting enough of that stuff from me.

Digby points us at a short video from the BBC protraying some of the day-to-day life of US soldiers in Iraq. It seems that the soldiers ...

I expect that I have some Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter fans among my readership, and of those, one or two that may be interested to know tha...

John Rogers at Kung Fu Monkey reports a dialogue about a vexing question. Civil War re-enactments. .... At what point do you think we...

Vile Republican Senator Rick Santorum alludes to The Lord of the Rings. As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is be...

Here I was just talking about the penetration of feminist ideas into mainstream culture without folks recognizing them as “feminist,” an...

Better than ever. And ever more necessary. He is truly a Great American. Go watch.

Via DragonLadyFlame, Tyger, an absurdly cool animation. Burning bright, I tell ya.

Want to do your homework on what's happening, and how we got here? Hilzoy at Obsidian Wings has the goods, going back to the Clinton a...

CBGB Coolest club on Earth 1973-2006 How did this happen without anyone telling me? Of course, I should have known. Last year, my soul ...

The very witty Biography Channel dating site offered me Frieda Kahlo, Mata Hari, and Agatha Christie. I was hoping for Dorothy Parker or Vi...

If you loved that Saturn picture you might also like this bubble in space from Astronomy Picture of the Day.

Echidne of the Snakes notices another sign of feminism's slow, creeping victory in America's ongoing kulturkamph, quoting from ...

The President signed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 today. Here's a picture. These men have a date with the Hague. Digby el...

Vladimir Bukovsky reminds us that torture is not only evil, it's counterproductive—and hard to eradicate, once it get a foothold. Ever...

From Krugman, via Tristero at Hullabaloo. The claim that these officials hyped the case for war isn't a conspiracy theory; it's sim...

Via Christa Faust, a little noir tale, “The Last Kayfabe” by Ray Banks, about an aging wrestler who's down on his luck. Mind you, ...